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An edition of The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973)

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Second printing

by

  • ★★★★ 4.3 (16 ratings) ·
  • 173 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 30 Have read

A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

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Publisher
Dial Press
Language
English
Pages
179

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Subjects

Magic, Fiction, Children's stories, Juvenile fiction, Magicians, Juvenile works, Juvenile audience, clocks, Halloween, tombs, end time, Witches, Clocks and watches, fiction, Supernatural, fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Barnavelt, lewis (fictitious character), fiction, Pottinger, rose rita (fictitious character), fiction, Children's fiction, Magic, fiction, Time travel, fiction, Michigan, fiction, Clocks and watches, Witchcraft

People

Isaac Izard, Lewis Barnavelt, Jonathan Barnavelt, Florence Zimmermann, Selenna Izard, Tarby Corrigan

Places

New Zebedee, Michigan

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2004, BWI Bound
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2003, Gallimard
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La Pendule d'Halloween
2001, Editions du Rocher
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The House With a Clock in Its Walls
1993, Puffin Books
Paperback in English
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1980 11, Yearling
Paperback in English - 7th Dell Printing
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1973, Dial Press
Library Binding in English - Second printing
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls
1973, Dial Books for Young Readers
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1973

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.B413 Ho

The Physical Object

Format
Library Binding
Pagination
179 p.
Number of pages
179

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5288167M
Internet Archive
housewithclockin0000unse
LCCN
72007600
OCLC/WorldCat
1193940353
Goodreads
60604324

Work Description

When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan, comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Selenna Izard. It seems that Selenna and her husband built a timepiece into the walls—a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!


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Lewis Barnavelt fidgeted and wiped his sweaty palms on the seat of the bus that was roaring toward New Zebedee.
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